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Manilius Udate: 2006/12/10 Utime: 08:19


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Danny Caes 17-Feb-2007 11:40
Bob,
Congratulations!!!
On this photograph you have captured the unusually bright high-albedo craterlet between Menelaus and Julius Caesar (to the northwest of Sinus Honoris; at the right margin of the photograph).
That craterlet's (and its snowy white ejectablanket's) bright appearance is always at its best during Full Moon, but you have captured its distinct brightness near Last Quarter Moon! Extraordinary!
During the summer of 1971, that craterlet was photographed by the orbiting CMP (Command-Module-Pilot) of the "Endeavour" (the CSM of Apollo 15 with CMP Alfred Worden aboard). Several close-ups of it show some sort of "impacted snowball on grey asphalt". The most close-up'd image of it is AS15-92-12548 (on black-and-white film, in MAGAZINE 'OO/92').

Danny Caes,
Public Observatory of Ghent-Belgium
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